Personal Narrative: You Hurt Me And I Let Me Through

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“You hurt me and I forgive you, but I will never forget what you put me through.” The past four years of my life have been like a rollercoaster of emotions and feelings. I have been put through more tough situations then most elderly people have been put through in their whole lives. I never would have thought in a million years that my dad would be a single parent raising me. And if you would’ve told me 5 years ago that I would have absolutely nothing to do with my mother I would’ve took it as a joke. Everyone makes mistakes and who am I to judge, but this woman meant so much to me. She never failed to amaze me with everything she could and would do for me. Up until four years that was. She started down a deep, dark, lonely path that I still till this day cannot explain. …show more content…
My mom had called my father and sat on the phone with him for a long time and I kept thinking to myself, “What could they possibly be talking about for this long?” My parents didn’t speak to each other at all. I was like the carrier pigeon between them. I think my family, especially my dad, wanted to believe that she had truly gotten herself together and was ready to be a mother again. He sat me down and tried to talk around the fact that I was going to live with my mother. At the point in time I was still hurt about things that she had done, but not to the point where I was resisting. In the back of my mind I just kept telling myself to give her a

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